Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death - Mark Essig (2005)

ART CREDITS

Images on the pages noted have been supplied by the following sources:

Jean Antoine Nollet, Essai sur l'Electricité des Corps (Paris, 1746), frontispiece. Courtesy Bakken Library

Illustrations by Martie Holmer

Courtesy U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site

Giovanni Aldini, Essai Théorique et Expérimentale su le Galvanisme (Paris, 1804). Courtesy National Library of Medicine

Adapted from Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison: His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910), 917. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Scientific American 44 (April 2, 1881): 207. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Courtesy Consolidated Edison Company of New York

Scientific American 47 (August 26, 1882): 130. Courtesy Edison National Historic Site

Author collection

Louis B. Lane, Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York, vol. 2 (N.Y: N.Y. Genealogical Publishing Co., 1906-8), 106. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Sydney H. Coleman, Humane Society Leaders in America (Albany, 1924), facing. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Scientific American 58 (June 30, 1888): 407. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Courtesy Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania

National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 5 (New York: James T. White, 1945), 22. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Courtesy Museum of the City of New York

National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. B (New York: James T. White, 1927), 329. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Electrical World 15 (April 5, 1890): 237. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Harper's Weekly 33 (July 27, 1889): 601. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Scientific Americari 59 (December 22, 1888): 393. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

National Police Gazette, August 23,1890, p. 16. Courtesy Clements Library at the University of Michigan

The Bookman 21 (1905): 490. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 8, 1889, p. 306. Courtesy Library of Congress

People of the State of New York, ex rel. William Kemmler against Charles F. Durston, as Warden of the State Prison at Auburn, NY, vol. 2 (Buffalo: J. D. Warren's Sons, 1889), following lxxxv. Courtesy Buffalo and Erie County Public Library

Courtesy American Philosophical Society

New York World, October 12,1889. Courtesy Library of Congress

Judge 17 (October 26, 1889): front cover. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Judge 17 (December 21,1889): back cover. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Medico-Legal Journal 3 (1887-8): 430. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Clark Bell, Medico-Legal Studies, vol. 2 (New York: Medico-Legal Journal, 1889): 93. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Electrical World 16 (August 16, 1890): 99. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Courtesy Cayuga Museum

New York Herald, August 7, 1890. Courtesy Library of Congress

New York Medical Journal 55 (May 14, 1892): following 542. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries

Courtesy Chicago Historical Society ICHi-02237

Harper's Weekly 33 (July 27, 1889): 601; Herbert Newton Casson, The History of the Telephone (Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1910), facing 132. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries